Title :
Gray-scale structuring element decomposition
Author :
Camps, Octavia I. ; Kanungo, Tapas ; Haralick, Robert M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
fDate :
1/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Efficient implementation of morphological operations requires the decomposition of structuring elements into the dilation of smaller structuring elements. Zhuang and Haralick (1986) presented a search algorithm to find optimal decompositions of structuring elements in binary morphology. We use the concepts of Top of a set and Umbra of a surface to extend this algorithm to find an optimal decomposition of any arbitrary gray-scale structuring element
Keywords :
image segmentation; mathematical morphology; search problems; Top operation; Umbra operation; binary images; binary morphology; dilation; gray-scale structuring element decomposition; image decomposition; morphological operations; optimal decomposition; optimal decompositions; search algorithm; Algebra; Computer science; Filters; Gray-scale; Hardware; Image processing; Image reconstruction; Morphological operations; Shape; Surface morphology;
Journal_Title :
Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
